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is well known for its sun-kissed beaches and family-friendly tourist attractions. but sometimes fantasy gives way . and when crime is committed here suspects will usually find themselves booked into the orange county jail. >> what are you in for? >> disturbing the peace. >> have you been in jail before? >> nook here at the camera for me. >> the orange county jail is comprised of five, separate jail facilities. the largest of these is the theo lacey jail, with an average daily populati

he always likes to say we don't have andy of mayberry. we don't have otis coming into the jail tank. that is unty jail inmate we've got. we have 400 people in custody for murder today. we don't have people in jail f possession of marijuana, ave some very serious felony inmates in our custody. >> hands behind your back. >> unlike pristed of only been accused and are being held a still, violence in prison.4t jails full of predators, there is always going to be prey. the inmates prey on eapf situations to occur. what happens is, thewill try to control it. they do a job. art to lose a little bit of control, what they'll do l. >> sergeant hernandez is in charge of the oran or ert. >> go ahead and grab your gear

and just take it outside. >> ert is used for the major disturbances. we are used to quell riotous .gather intel. inside the armory at theo lacey, the emergency response team suits up to confront an inmate considered to be a dangerous threat. >> i'm sending you guys into nb danger, i know. this is not a drill. this is an ad seg inmate.at that means. correct? this means he's assaultive to other inmates but also assaultive possibly to staff. that kind of amps it up a little bit.>> the inmate is albert briceno. orange county from a maximum security state prison, in order to appeal his current sentence e than 150 years on multiple counts of gang-related armed robbery. >> albert briceno is a gang member from hard trden grove. he goes by the moniker of capone. he was mainly brought up in the gang life through his family, through his mom and surrounding family members. he was basically born into the gangs. >> i just grew up, like, angry. it wasn't cool showing your emotions. i channeled all that hurt into anger.

i started gang-banging. if i'm going to cry, i'm going to let their blood be my tears, yo notoriety? >> blasting fo #ols. >> did you kill anybody? >> i mean, you know, i've been -- i've been -- it's been alleged, you know. in and out of custody, he has elevated his status within both the inmate population and the gang population to be considered a very violent inmate. >> all the things that i've been through, it's like i have been walking through hell wearing gasoline shoes. >> i'm telling you right now you've got the green light to do what es i nice and steady. >> the team is on its way to briceno's cell to launch a surprise shakedown for contraband. and they're taking no chances. >> get on the ground. get on the ground.

get on the ground or we will use lethal weapons against you. >> slide out. slide out. on your stomach. keep coming out. that's fine. start heading off to your left. turn that way.?)eé >> we do cell searches all the time. we don't always use this level of security. >> put your hands behind your back. >> we're doing this because these guys they're either willing to fight to protect or because, in briceno's case, he is such a high-level threat, we take these precautions to protect ourselves. his cell searching for contraband, like weapons or drugs and, equally as important, gang intelligence. >> sometimes they will hide kites between paperwork. if it is legal mail or legal paperwork they think we can't search it. we can search it. but we can't read it. >> does that happen a lot to

you? >> what, this? >> yeah. >> yeah. how come? >> just procedure, their jobs, you know. >> within minutes, the deputies make a hit and discover gang-related documents. >> i'm really not at liberty to say exactly how it could help us. it's sensitive material. but it's probably going to help investigations further down the road. this was a good one. any time we get decent intelligence, it's a good search. >> consider briceno a powerful gang leader, his time at orange county has been spent trying to disassociate himself from that past.g stuff no more. that's when i was young, you know. i left all that behind. it's childish. it's the reason why i'm here. >> but briceno might have a motive for distancing himself from gang life. his current armed robbery

sentences come with gang enhancements that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life. he will soon be going to court in hopes of convincing a judge to drop them. >> we committed robberies, me and another individual. and that was it. got arrested. both of us being gang members that's when they hit us with the gang enhancements. >> while briceno's most serious convictiayaw. but murder is one of the easiest crimes you can get away with. easy. yes. it is. what gets people in trouble is their mouth. they tell one person. one person. that person turns and tells two. other people tell. next thing you know, boom. >> how many grieving families do you think you've left behind you? >> i left quite a few. i mean, i'm not one to keep track. i don't sit there and like put y belt.

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the theo lacey jail is the largest of the five facilities that make up the orange county, california, tem is three miles away at the central jail complex. central is three facilities in one. new arrivals are processed. the county's women's facility is9 located here, as well. but the largest section of gh-security male inmates. jeremy bowles has been here for the past two years facing an array of very serious charges. >> when n it comes to different things, i pa don't have no boundaries.

as long as it is not hurting kids, not hurting pregnant women, i'm up for it all. >> have you seen a lot of people die? >> yes. can -- yeah. that comes with the game. >> bowles has a long criminal and gang history and has served prior sentences, both in state prison and at the orange county jail. 2 years ago he was a free man for 16 days. an eventful 16 days. >> i went to the beach for the first time in my life. that was about the only thing i did positive out there. >> bowles allegedly spent much of the rest of the time on a crime spree that resulted in his latest arrest. the most serious charges include multiple counts of home invasion robbery and the attempted murder of a police officer during a shootout that followed a high-speed chase. >> it's over 60 counts. >> bowles has pled not guilty to all charges. but sorting it out could take

years. >> i think 1 of my charges alone carries 25 to life. and that's just the orange county cases. there's cases in other states, other counties. i got myself in a world of courts for a long time. >> jeremy bowles poses a huge threat because he is completely unpredictable.be laughing and having a normal day. and the next moment, he can literally be attacking you or me. he is from this particular gang in l.a., sarzana.h mayhem, as much damage as you can. jc >> through prison and through other incarcerations, he's really made connections with people from the mexican mafia.m people to me are the same people as me, meaning a lot of people live in fear of them. me, personally, i never did. it is something i kind of grew up with. >> jeremy bowles to me is the

ultimate chameleon. he can basically fit in anywhere. and with the relationship he has made with the mexican mafia, he truly is capable of doing just about anything, including killing people. >> while bowles has never been charged with murder, he freely admits that gang violence has been a significant part of his past. >> how many people have you killed? >> oh, man. i'd like to just keep that to myself. a lot. enough. that maybe i shouldn't be saying this on camera. just a lot. i didn't believe in drive-bys. i believe in knocking on people's doors and walking into their houses. pull the trigger. you wake up the next day you never seen nothing. but to get up in somebody's face and do something to them, it's where you become numb. once you do it once, you can do it for the rest of your life. >> jeremy bowles is a very sophisticated, very experienced, very dangerous individual.

jeremy bowles is every volley. >> and a short time later, bowles would see an evolution in his charges, as well. along with the d already facing, two new charges have just been filed. both for premeditated murder. >> never been charged with murder. and it's kind of funny because i've been charged with everything else but that. co-defendant severed from me, so he could testify against me. i understand what he's doing to save himself. would i do it? i don't think so. but for each his own. what i don't understand is this is the life you signed up for. you want to go getting in trouble and then all of a sudden, you can't take the heat and you turn around and you go tell on everybody. we take an oath. for this to happen is very upsetting. >> though his lawyer has entered a not guilty plea on the new murder charges, bowles seems resigned to the likely end

result, a murder conviction in at least one of the cases. he also made it clear that he had no feelings about the victim. >> you know, so many years of doing things and getting away with it, now getting caught with it. i don't really feel it. to me, honestly, i mean, you want to be dead honest, the dude's a dirt bag. to me, it felt like he had it coming. you want it as real as it gets? it's as real as it gets. coming up -- >> my mind is not right. but i still got game. i bet my dope put yours to shame. >> the o.c. senior rapper. and later the most shocking confession ever heard on "lockup." >> i've used everything from bats to zip ties. pretty devious. once you put it around somebody's neck, they can't get it off.

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of managing such population can be found in the theo lacey kitchen, where inmate workers prepare 9,000 meals per day. >> i've actually heard that if an inmate had to be incarcerated they prefer to come to orange county jail because they are fed well. they are fed more colorfully. and our nutritional guidelines and standards are the same as the rest of the state. but we put a lot of care and energy into what we do. >> while lower security level inmates eat in the chow hall, the majority of inmates are confined to their cells. their meals are delivered by inmate workers, like robert mason. >> it really helps that i used to work at denny's. it makes me thankful where i am at because at least we get to come out three times a day. it passes the time a lot quicker. these guys are locked down 23 hours a day, 22 hours a day. time goes by real slow up there. that's why we are kind of like their only contact.ittle things for them and they act like they've known you a long time. how is your court case going?

>> even though he is well past the hip-hop generation, mason likes giving his younger customers something extra with their meals. a serving of rap. >> i'll do a short one. i'll do a short one. ♪ my mind's not right but still got game ♪ ♪ bet my dope puts yours to shame ♪ ♪ these cws are cool but their living in sin ♪ ♪ they're robbing the pharmacies for vicodin ♪ >> when their shift ends, mason and other inmate workers make their way back to their housing unit >> k-70, sir. >> better known as the workers barracks, it's still jail. but life in the barracks allows for more freedom of movement. and is one of the few housing units where daylight streams through the windows. >> this is where we're coming into the projects here. as we get further down this section we come into the high-rent district. >> mason is serving nine months at theo lacey, convicted of an unusual shoplifting charge.

out pants. >> you're here because you stole a flea collar and a pair of workout pants. >> yes. and i do have a dog. my mind on methamphetamine. i had been up for four days straight without sleep. i have no idea why i was even in that store. if there's anything that you could say is it's the devil's drug, methamphetamine fits that bill perfectly. it's a blessing i got caught stealing that stuff because i was praying to god to stop and i couldn't. so, i guess this is his way of helping me stop. i can flex. >> inside jail, mason is an advocate for healthy living. my friends ca because i workout a lot. and i'm pretty cut up for being 56 years old. pretty, as they say, ripped. >> what are you doing, popeye? >> we are setting some chairs up to do dips.

since we don't have a dip bar, we have to make do with this. so, these chairs work pretty good. we get the right level we want. and just make do with what we have. it's probably one of the best exercises you can do. if you can just do one exercise, dips are probably the best thing you could do. i try to stay in shape all the time. i surf a little bit. these guys come in here, the youngsters, they ask me for advice on how to workout. that is a good dip. going all the way down. coming up. see it working his chest, his shoulders, his lats. most of them, if you look around, you can see, they're not in that good of shape. seems like t sitting on their butts too long, watching video games and working on computers. they have to get busy workin ages. oh, man. >> one, two, three. >> but not all inmates find camaraderie in jail.as a gang member with a violent past, albert briceno is locked in a single cell 22 hours a day.

>> here we have albert briceno down here on appeal for his 150 years, 8 counts of robbery. >> he is the one trying to get some of the gang enhancements dropped so he can get some time shredded off. >> my guess is the gang enhancements are probably going to stick because it was found true during a jury trial. >> a lot of new tattoos, too. >> yeah. he got those up in delano. because he didn't have them back in 2001 when he was with us. >> he didn't have the horns. he didn't have the star. he didn't have any of his neck work done. wow. almost looks like a different guy in those two. >> you take a look at the two pictures. there's definitely a difference. but, then, again, when you get accustomed to that lifestyle it is only a natural progression. >> down for the cause. >> both his mom and dad no and his son is in juvie right now. >> we are looking at potentially a third generation. >> very close. depending on which route the son

ends up going. >> i was busted when jesse was born. >> though his 15-year-old son, jesse, is only a short distance away in the county's juvenile communicate with him through letters.they write to each other frequently. >> said what's up, dad. that he's working out. he wants me to mail him a list of exercises so he can get he requested some legs and some i think in juvenile hall they still have weights to work out on.ays he hopes jesse will follow his workout routine but not his life as a gang-banger. >> you know, everybody wants your children to be successful and succeed in life and be somebody. you know? but, you know, he is young. he is a teenager. sometimes he doesn't make the best decisions. you know? you can't force it. you know, it's like you can bring a horse to the water. but you can't make it drink, you know. ultimately, they're going to make their own decisions. charged with murder, briceno

made it clear when he was jesse's age some of his decisions ended in violence. >> i was just treacherous. i was just a gunner. fools hear my name and i wanted my name to bring fear to the depths of their soul, you know. but as far as, like, when i was going on hits, your intentions is to go and spray as many rounds as you can and bring -- you know? and bring, you know, the rain. just delivering a metal rain storm, you know. coming up, jeremy bowles receives devastating news. >> my uncle, he's just everything to me. >> then, confesses to the shocking magnitude of his murderous past. of tim and laura. it's amazing how appreciative people are when you tell them they could save a lot of money on their car insurance by switching to geico...they may even make you their best man. may i have the rings please? ah, helzberg diamonds. nice choice, mate.

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>> all right, hold on. let me go mortgage my house. i want to play again. >> but they're in for a surprise. >> so, what's going to happen is we're going to have about a hundred inmates from this location move to another location. >> to make room for a new group of inmates, the workers will be transferred to a new barracks. >> they're going to grab their belongings. they'll roll it into a bundle. and we'll watch everybody, make sure they don't have anything they're not supposed to. >> any large inmate move poses a potential security breach. so, to give deputies the upper hand, the move is not announced ahead of time. it is planned for 9:00 p.m. when most other inmates are locked down. >> all right, you guys, listen up. we are going to make this move real smooth. get your sheets. roll a i want two lines on each side. one right here. one right here. >> one of the inmates involved in the move is the workers'

father figure, personal trainer and resident rapper, robert "popeye" mason. >> i guess we are moving to another barracks. so, we've got a few minutes to pack up. we've kind of been kept in the dark. we knew something was coming. but we didn't know exactly when. so, looks like now is the time to get busy and get packing. >> ready to make this move? i didn't think we was moving but they made it fast. so, hey -- >> do you want your popeye stickers? >> i'm going to leave my mark here. >> all right. let's go. this line first. left side. go out that door and follow him out. do you understand? >> yes, sir. >> we basically moved about 200 yards away from our previous location, to the "f" barracks, which is another barracks that we have. >> it's like mot they left the light on. >> this little lump here. that's a pillow built into the mattress. style right there. that is style. >> i was really debating on the

aquamarine. like this better. we have a big window. can watch the sun go down. we can go outside and get fresh air once in a while. >> this is okay. this will work. we got no choi anyway. it's got to work. you're in jail. it is not like you expect the biltmore. no big deal. >> the next group is bravo "q." pier >> inmate moves are not uncommon in most jails. as thousands of men and women check in and out of jail, classification officers are constantly analyzing the population in order to house them in a manner that will help avoid conflict. >> next group is echo >> albert briceno in he has been transferred from the lacey facility to the ntral jail, three miles away. >> most inmates within the county jail are continuously on the move. we do have to screen and rescreen these inmates all the time.]& / who can play with who.z

>> shortly after moving into his new cell, briceno discovered his neighbor was an old childhood friend, jeremy bowles. >> i recognized the tattoos. and then when he got up, i said, man, what's up, "g"? he looked at me. and his eyes got all big. the re the star threw him off, the tattoos that i got. he got all excited, you know? >> me and albert briceno have been aroun the last 22 years. we were neighbors in juvenile >> briceno and bowles are not only old friends. they share long criminal histories. they are considered among the mo ever have physical contact. they are housed in a unit where e is allowed into the common area. >> we laugh at it now. we look at each other door to door. we're just laughing like, dude, what the hell are we doing?

and it's still like we are 10 years old in the heart. >> come on. come on. >> inside their cells the sinks provide the çbest sound transmission and serve as ch interco >> yeah. >> we're getting old, huh? >> [ bleep ], dude. >> we ain't changed since we were kids. that's the scary part. >> stuck like chuck. >> stuck like chuck. >> i'm telling you he's got a big old smile on his face. like one of the little dogs you leave home and when you cohome, is he all excited and wagging his tail around, peeing all over the place. that is my buddy, though. >> are we going to play some chess, or what? >> they are both very happy that now they are housed together and ha reminisce just like if we were to see an old friend. >> 6 to 34. check. go ahead and move that w >> they have a very relationship. good rapport with each other. >> queen takes knight. let's see where you go with this. >> they are relatively happy and comfortable with each other. >> that's it, dog. >> facing more tha premeditated murder, bowles has found some reunited with his old friend. >> good game. >> all right. >> that friendship is about to

grow even more important. though bowles has implied that he has brought death to others, two days later, death would pay him a visit. coming up, from behind the walls of the orange county jail, a stunning confession of mass bjo

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so, this is every day. i do this two times a day. one time in the morning, one time after i workout. just keeps you busy. anything to keep the mind busy, keep it occupied.ragic news from his family, jeremy bowles' life inside ofn focused on cleansing. >> i found out for the first time my mom died of a brain aneurysm on monday. i also found out that my uncle passed away of heart failure yesterday.s trying to help me, trying to get me to go down a good path. my uncle was like, he was just everything to me. >> i send my condolences. you know that. if y intervene in that little private part of his life that he's going through, you know. but it's messed up, you know. >> the thought that goes through my head is i wish i could just take his place. he was a good guy. it is like, after doing all this

[ bleep ] in life, and you go out there and you're hurting people and you're doing all this bout other people's families. you don't think about nothing. because it is not in your face. you're sitting here and it happens to you and you're like [ bleep ]. now i know what it feels like. and it it's hard for me to sleep. sometimes i sit here and i think about the stuff i've done. maybe there's a lot of things i've just never told anybo it's like now it's just haunting. sit here and every day you tut of your mind. and you try to push them into a corner. it's like, i don't have any more anymore. >> norners to push away the crimes of his past, he has decided to come to terms with them.

though he had earlier alluded to having committed murder, he decided to reveal to us the stunning magnitude of his homicidal past. >> i remember 29 murders in detail. times, dates, places, caliber of weapons, methods used. i remember the sounds of people begging for their lives. i remember people saying no. i remember the smell of blood. they say you a serial killer. i've blown that out of the water quite a few times. >> bowles said his first murder 13 and that he used a methods to kill. >> i used everything from bats to all kinds of -- zip ties is pretty devious. once you put that around somebody's neck, they can't get . >> bowles not only spoke to us about the 29 murders, he spoke >> after spending some time with jeremy bowles, he's basically confessed to my partner and i that he has committed numerous murders in numerous different

ways. one murder was described to m of a liquid from "the anarchist cookbook." and he was able to basically burn somebody so bad that they died. >> bowles says the victim was a childhood friend who his gang accused of being an informant. >> we went to the funeral and all ith reaper looking at the person i just killed sitting in a casket. >> he's also described to us most rec zently that he has swum victims bodies and/or parts to a lake. and he's disposed of them that way. >> most people they -- as long as there ain't no air in them, they'll sink. get them out there, get them in the lake. whatever is at the bottom feeds. >> he's also told us that he has disposed of weapons that way. he would just go for a little midnight swim. and he would come back without the parts and/or the weapons. jeremy bowles has also described

to us that a different way he has disposed of some of his ring a time he worked in a mortuary via cremation. so while he was working in the mortuary, he was able to cremate at least one or more of his victims. >> i think the most gnarly [ bleep ] ever is just having to cut somebody up, doing it like that. that's not -k at kind of [ bleep ] me up in the head. now, i have to relive that and understand why i did it or what i did it for. >> 29, that number just keeps we know guys who come through. i'm iceman this or iceman that for monikers. this guy should be the true iceman at that point. >> by what he's admitted to, i would definitely have to say so. >> defin >> hey, bowles, is now a good time to talk about what we were talking about earlier? okay. step back for me. at this point in time, i don't know what the motivation is for

jeremy to confess all this. i don't know if his conscience is finally weighing on him. if the loss of his family members is weighing on him. or if the fact that his kids are outhere running around without a good father figure. i'm not sure what his motivation is to confess do you feel that part of this and part of the reason you may be talking about these things that haven't been talked about or discussed or even known by law enforcement is part of a sense for you to bring some closure to some things? >> yeah. i just, you know, dealing with all this and just everything period is just taking its toll think it's just better off that i do this, get nd gethas been eating at me for a long time. you know, like other people's families. they have kids and they have moms and they have dads. i don't think a lot of them people have closure on a lot of things that have happened. >> right.xt >> i just feel that by clearing the air with certain things it puts me at ease.

and also helps me deal with my own demons in my own head. and gives me a chance to have closure and say sorry to a lot of people i've never had a chance to. >> kind of like you are experiencing the closure with your losses. >> yeah. >> okay. >> some things i wish some people would have said sorry to ot a chance to. >> all right. well, we'll talk about it a little more a little later. if at any time something doesn't feel right and you are not able to deal with it, please, please, i encourage you to follow through with that. >> thank you. >> all right. we'll talk more.res. they reach out to their sons. >> i love you, jeremy. don't ever think different. qawef: [ male announcer ] introducing...

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th difference between ever seeing freedom again or not. >> i was childish back then. i couldn't fathom the consequences and the people i was hurting. basically i threw my w if i knew i was going to go through all this when i was getting sentenced, i would have rather just, you know, if i could, i'll go in front of the firing squad or something, you know, just end it. in reality, all i'm doing is dying a slow, painful death, you know? >> victim was shot four times in the face and chest area. >> briceno's childhood friend, uz jeremy bowles, will likely never see freedom again either. >> one more time in the head. >> after confessing to 29 murders, bowles has been asked by jail officials to detail the murders in writing. >> as the details come forward, chain will basically be to gather all the information from him as much as possible, document it on paper.

and then, what we'll do is we'll start contacting t concerns. from tfehere, those agencies will probably get ahold of the district attorney's office. and they'll probably have a sitdown with jeremy bowles and crime as related to jurisdicon.$bm asking in return is the death penalty. just get i. >> i think that jeremy bowles tually wants to go to death row because he has a higher chance of dying of natural causes on death row rather than being executed by the california departmentvery comfortable place to live. i have talked to several inmates from death row back here to orange county custody, and they have no qualms they say they're actually treated very well. >> i won't die here. i'll d step before this place executes so, i don't see that really, you know. i already know that i can live out a long life up there, just

exhaust the appeals and do everything elsn or the death penalty, h children behind. one of his sons has just turned 13. the same age bowles was when he began his life of crime. >> i don't write him very often, because we don't have very good communication. and it's his birthday. i figure at 13 years old you give a kid advice and see where heth it. this is to my son. it says, hi, son. how are you? how's it going? how is life treating you? you're growiour birthday's the best. you're such a great son. keep sch1ool and sports. that's number one. i know right now it might not seem like it but keep out of troubllife. i think of you and your brother all the timere of you and him on the wall right next to where i sleep. life is rough. and then it gets more rough. but you've got to stay open-minded an understand life is a test.

you're the student. i love you, jeremy, don't ever think different. i know i have a funny way of showing it. and it seems even harder when you don't talk to me. but i know you're growing up and you need your space to see life for what it is. but if you ever want to talk or see me, let mom know. i know there will be a time when -- and i just stopped. like i was explaining to my neighbor earlier, it's like, you know, i love my kids. i do. but i'm not a good dad. all because i didn't take the be somebody in their life. it's too late.

>> too late for what? >> it's just too late to change. it's too late.